Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1951

No Exit. In Baltimore, Richard Mobely, caught by police in a holdup
attempt, explained: "I was trying to raise enough money to get a
divorce."

Two Times Two. In Syracuse, N.Y., the city council pondered a department
head's memorandum on the city administration's budgetary problems: "The
decrease in departments showing a decrease is increased by the amount
of wage increases and the increase in departments showing an increase
is reduced by the amount of wage increases."